I really need to give up smoking but I just can't seem to do it. I have chronic pain after an operation, chronic bronchitis and my health is deteriorating, but I get depressed when I give up. Smoking to me is very much like a crutch. Could hypnotism ...

I went to a hypnotist to stop smoking in the early 1980s and it worked for about a year. I went away on holiday and bought a packet of cheap cigarettes and that got me back onto smoking. Would it help if I went to a hypnotist again?

Can hypnosis help tinnitus? It was brought on by two very stressful incidents. Tinnitus is when you get noises in the ears and head that you cannot get away from. It sounds like a loud electrical transformer hum and then it will alter to a loud fizz.

I was hypnotised over 30 years ago and it cost me £5. At the time I was very angry with the hypnotist because I didn't feel like I'd been on another plane at all. The first thing I did when I walked out was have a cigarette! However, after that...

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